'Hyperbolic map' saves the Net

International computer boffins are warning that the Internet may "collapse" at some point within the next decade, reveals The Register.

They propose the use of a new routing method based on hyperbolic geometry, and have devised what they call a "hyperbolic atlas" of the entire Net to aid in this plan.

"Routing in the Internet today is based on a topographical map that does not take into account any geometric co-ordinates in any space,” says Dmitri Krioukov of the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at the University of California.

Security firms have warned that a booby-trapped e-mail promising free adult movies is racking up victims around the world, writes The BBC.

Some variants of the Windows worm contain a link to a PDF that a recipient has been told to expect.

Those clicking on the link get neither movies, nor documents, but give the malware access to their entire Outlook address book.

Wikileaks is just weeks away from posting a huge cache of classified documents related to the US war in Iraq in what one journalist says will be history's biggest military leak, reports The Register.

Iain Overton, editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, told Newsweek his non-profit organisation is working with Wikileaks and several TV and print media outlets in advance of the release.

It's not unlike the time Wikileaks published secret records concerning the war in Afghanistan, when it gave advanced copies to The New York Times, Der Spiegel and The Guardian on condition they publish reports on an agreed-upon date.

Adobe Reader and Acrobat users on Windows machines now have a potential shield available to protect them from attackers targeting a zero-day vulnerability, says eWeek.

Microsoft and Adobe Systems announced on 10 September that the latest edition of Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit can be used to block attacks.

The announcement followed reports that an exploit currently in the wild can bypass Microsoft's data execution prevention feature using a technique known as ROP (return-oriented programming).